Seasonal Menu: Imperium Theater

📽Stories in the Dark🍿

Popcorn Topping of the Month
Assorted Appetizers: to capture the flavors of a New Year's Eve party, we have spinach-artichoke dip, pigs-in-a-blanket, and strawberry champagne transformed into tasty sprinkles that make every bucket of popcorn a celebration

New Slushy Flavor
Midnight Kiss: not so much a flavor as an experience, this slushy will give you the butterflies and blushing of that perfect kiss just as the year tips over from old to new (available in three strengths--Chaste, Passionate, and Behind Closed Doors)

Promotional Item
Roulette Reels: Theater #3 will be dedicated to randomly selected showings starting January 1st, pulled from our extensive archives going back to the silent era, pick a time and see what fate has in store for you--if not for the coming year, then at least for the next couple of hours

2023 Music Wrap-Up

I started buying music more frequently last year, and quickly realized this provided a massive improvement to my quality of life relative to cost. So for the past year, I have listened to at least one new album each week. Thursdays are New Album Day. (And Boy Juice Day, because Thursday is best day.)

I am a weirdo who doesn’t do streaming music but actually buys albums, organizes mp3s, and listens across multiple devices including some rather retro ones. So I do not have a tidy end-of-year, Spotify Wrapped-esque, service-generated data set to show off. I shall have to DIY that shit.

New albums* heard: 77
*(discretely purchased music items, includes singles, EPs, and other short forms along with “full” albums)

Contributing artists: 50

Oldest Album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (David Bowie, 1972)

Newest Album: It's Black Friday, Charlie Brown (Louie Zong, November 24, 2023)

Top artists by albums: Left At London and The Midnight, four albums apiece

Most repeated albums: DECIDE (Djo), 6666 (Four Fists), PORTALS (Melanie Martinez), Monsters (The Midnight), Bronco (Orville Peck), Fake News (Pinguini Tattic Nucleari)

Tracks of note: For Judas (Adeem the Artist), The Grand Experiment (Doomtree), THIS IS A PROTEST FOR YOUR HEART!!! (Left At London), Unjinxed (Four Fists), Maker (Anjimile), Live Another Day (Skyhill)